The latest discovery marks the furthest detection of oxygen ever made and defies what we thought about how galaxies formed in the early universe.

A European space telescope launched to explore the dark universe has released a trove of new data on distant galaxies.

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New data further challenge the best scientific theory of the history and the structure of the universe. But a separate recent ...

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The car-sized Large Synoptic Survey Telescope (LSST) Camera that was recently installed on the Vera C. Rubin Observatory is ...

X-ray astronomy is a somewhat neglected corner of the more general field of astronomy. The biggest names in telescopes, like ...

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Deep Space Optical Communication (DSOC) uses near-infrared lasers for high-bandwidth, low-power, and efficient communication ...

According to Einstein’s theory of general relativity, gravitational waves warp spacetime. In the process, they could imprint ...

Opinion High energy neutrinos are the coolest particles in astrophysics. Born in distant cosmic cataclysms, they speed ...